The first clown I trained with worked directly with Floyd Shaffer for seven years. She finally left in part because her views on the necessity to remain silent. At one point someone mentioned the "death mask" and she was closer to the oppinions expressed here than in the book. I know that to me it seems more like someone at the beginning was really stretching trying to justify what they were doing so that it would be more likely to be accepted by some of the more conservative congregations of the 70's. This would be a good question for Brenda Marshall. Tony Jones might have some knowledge in this respect as well.
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